Current students

  • A wizard holds his nose as he concocts a potion.
    IWM Art 15331 16

    Mimi Markham

    The Fantastic Imagination from the Front Lines to the Home Front, 1914-45

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  • Dupatta - a long scarf, traditionally worn by Indian women around the head, neck and shoulders - created by a group known as the Desi Grannies are displayed in a white corridor at IWM North
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    Sofia Cotrona

    The Social Impact of Co-curation and Participatory Practices in Large Museums

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  • Workers at an aircraft factory in India are checking newly made fuel tanks lying on the ground
    IWM (CBI 48799)

    Triparna Kalita

    Visualising India's Wars in South East Asia, 1938-47

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  • Personnel of No. 1 'M' Balloon Unit inflating M-type balloons from hydrogen cylinders by the roadside at Bunsbeek, Belgium.
    Image: IWM (CL 1963)

    Lee Richards

    ‘If it’s printed it’s true’: a critical reassessment of covert ‘black’ propaganda produced by the Political Warfare Executive (PWE)

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  • A copy of a 19th century print showing the exterior of the Bethlem Royal Hospital at Lambeth Road, London.
    Image: IWM (Q 82924)

    Rachel Ditchfield

    The Bethlem Royal Hospital During the First World War

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  • Winston Churchill sits at a desk, his body slightly angled towards the camera.
    Image: IWM (MH 26392)

    Katherine Moar

    Tracing Public Perceptions of Winston Churchill from the First World War to 2020

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  • Three young members of the group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) sit in front of a formation of fighters preparing to march towards the capital Monrovia. June 2003.
    © IWM DC 64034

    Katy Thornton

    The influence of contemporary culture on young combatants in West Africa (1989–2003), explored through the archives of ‘trans-media’ journalist Tim Hetherington

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  • Students at Belfast University, carrying banners proclaiming 'Civil rights for everyone', the 'Special Powers Act Must Go', and 'We want Houses Not Platitudes', march through Belfast to the City Hall in October 1968.
    © HU 55866

    Ella Roberts, DTP student

    The BBC and Northern Ireland: creating and accepting a shared truth

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  • A soldier dressed in camouflage sits facing forwards.
    IWM (DC 3355)

    Chloe Storer

    'After Afghanistan': narratives of Operation Herrick told over time by those who served

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  • Image of scene at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan during Operation Herrick XIX (H19). Taken during a visit by members of the War Story project team. A British solider on a laptop and drinking a hot drink in the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) area. The NAAFI area includes shops, coffee house, Pizza Hut and outdoor eating areas.
    © IWM DC 3683

    Hirah Azhar

    Manufacturing reality in the war of narratives: Islamic State photo propaganda, British military influence operations, and public perception

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  • Men of the 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, taking part in a seashore training exercise at Sandbanks, March 1941. exercise.
    © IWM H 8397

    Megan Hamilton

    Training the Troops: British and Imperial Armies, 1939-1945

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